Comic book adaptations are so hot right now that Hollywood is snapping up the rights before they're even published. The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft makes its debut on April 8, but it's already been optioned by Universal and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment.
The story, as you've probably guessed, followslegendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, mixing fact and fiction as it interweaves the young Lovecraft dealing with mental illness in his family and his own writer's block, and what happens when he comes across a book that puts a curse on him and transforms his darkest nightmares into reality, let loose upon the world.
The book was written by Mac Carter and Jeff Blitz, with Carter already set to write the screenplay and executive-produce the film. Since he's also a commercials director to boot, watch as we don't bet against him directing too. Will this impact on Guillermo del Toro's much-mooted but never made Lovecraft epic At The Mountains of Madness? Well, since that's dead in the water right now, let's hope that this can revive it.